Waching daily Feb 5 2018

Hey everyone! So it's been a while since I posted a book review, but I just had so

many thoughts about this one so I thought, why not?

I'll post one. The book I want to talk about today is Just Between Us...I mean "I Hate

Everyone but You" by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin of Just Between Us. This

best-selling book is about Ava and Gen, two best friends who are being separated

for the first time by college. Ava opts to stay close to home in California to

pursue directing while Gen goes all the way across the country to Boston to go

to journalism school. They go through the ups and downs of their first semester of

college and keep in touch via email and text. Like I said, I had so many thoughts

about this book, many of them good, so let's get the bad out of the way. My

primary concern with this novel is that it feels like a fanfic slash wish

fulfillment of Gaby Dunn and Alison Raskin's lives.

This book is literally if you took Gaby and Alison made them teenagers again and

made them best friends since high school. Gaby literally went to college at

Emerson and Gen, aka Genevieve, the character that starts with the G, went to

college at Emerson. Alison, in real life, is director and you guessed it

Ava, the one starting with an A, wants to be a director. I don't really know why

this bothered me so much because I'm a massive fan of Gaby Dunn and Allison

Raskin as human beings and together when they are Just Between Us and they have a

fabulous youtube show where they used to give advice but now they just talk about

their life and it's just - it's just really good stuff and that you can tell

that they put a lot of their heart and soul into this book. I think it's just a

matter of me being too attached to Gaby and Allison, and it was very hard for me

to separate Gaby and Allison from Ava and Gen because Ava and Gen are so

closely linked to the writers and are so similar. It was really hard

for me to separate, and I really like separation between

author and characters. I like that John Green right now writes girls primarily

and writes completely different characters from himself. I really love

the fact that he writes mysteries when obviously he probably hasn't ever

searched for a dead parents body...and I'm going to Turtles All The Way Down, I

should stop it. I really like when I can separate the plot and the characters

from the author especially if I really feel like I know the author well outside

of being an author, like I did with Gabby and Alison and like I do with John Green,

for example, and other youtubers who are writers because we get their lives in

real time in real life all the time. I think for me it felt almost lazy that

they didn't go any extra steps to separate the characters or make the

characters any different from them and make the characters have any sort of

different perspectives. I almost wish that Ava was the one who ended up being

queer and Gen ended up being the one who had a mental illness, even though she had

characteristics of Gaby more, you know. I just wish they had at least mixed it up

a little bit mixed up some of the characteristics made made it different

enough that it didn't feel like a fanfic of their lives. it was just one of those

things where I saw it immediately and then I kept seeing it throughout. And I

wanted there to be differences but it didn't feel like there were enough. But

there is a lot to be said for having a very strong voice and point of view and

I will get to that. Like I said, I did love this book. Another thing I didn't

really like as much - and this is coming from the bookseller side of me - is that

this book is very much sex drugs and rock and roll. It's very hard to sell a

book when you know that it's going to discuss sleeping with a teacher's aide

and polyamory and severe mental illnesses.

It's just not an easy sell to parents, and you have to trust that the teen is

gonna want this book without kind of pushing it on them, because I can't be

like "This book is full of sex drugs and rock and roll here you go buy this book."

um It's just a lot harder to sell that versus - like versus even The Hate U Give,

which is a lot tamer on those topics, even though it's about really

heavy stuff. It's it's a lot easier for me to sell The Hate U Give because

even even though both are about very important issues, one is - it's very

obvious in The Hate U Give what it's about and why it's about that, while in I

Hate Everyone But You, it's not as obvious why it's about these things

unless you follow the writers lives. um This felt like it was very much for fans

of Just Between Us and fans of Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin, and even though I'm a

fan of them, it didn't feel original enough because I followed them so

closely, you know? That said, anyone who's looking for own voices works for queer

novels or novels about mental illness, I highly recommend it. It is fantastic in

terms of representation. Finally, my - the third thing that I didn't like as much

about this novel - and this is just a nitpick - this is something that was just

a pet peeve of mine - is that even though the epistolary nature of this novel

really works, there weren't times and date stamps in the emails and text

messages that we see so it was very hard to tell whether they were sending these

emails in October at the beginning of the semester or in December at the end

of the semester. Even though obviously it follows an order and we do get some

sense of time, but like in an epistolary novel, I like having the dates. I like

knowing that on November 4th they sent this and then Oh! on November 6th they

emailed back so it was - two days later, and over the span of two days we don't

know what happened or we will find out what happened and fill in the gaps

between those two days. I feel like the epistolary - with the epistolary novel

it's very easy to establish time as a setting and they didn't do that. I don't

know if that was an editorial choice. I don't

know if it was the choice of the writers, but it just kind of bugged me that I

didn't know where in the semester they were. I actually didn't even realize it

was supposed to be over the span of just one semester and not two until very late

in the novel. So just one of those things that kind of bugged me. And now, for the

good parts. Remember, I did like this novel! Okay so like I said before, amazing

queer representation and representation of mental illnesses. The good thing about

it being by Gaby Dunn and Allison - and Allison Raskin is that you know that

they know exactly what these characters are experiencing. And you know that Gaby

Dunn is bisexual, you know that she is polyamorous, and you know that she's

experienced what the characters experienced in the novel. You know that

Allison has struggled with severe OCD her entire life, you know that she has

anxiety, you know that - we know that these people have experienced the

things that are in this book. The emotions are real, the feelings are real,

the things that happened feel real. A lot of the times, we see depictions of

illness or just depictions of being queer that are so removed from what it

actually feels like in media that it was so refreshing to see that. It was so

refreshing to see someone go through their bisexual awakening and be unsure

of themselves but try to act confident about it because everyone expected her

to be confident about it, and it was very cool to see someone trying to fit into

the stereotypical pretty girl act when she really felt out of place, and trying

to figure out where her place was in college while struggling with a mental

illness. It was very cool to see that and as someone who has both struggled with

being queer and mental illness in college, it was amazing to see that

because I had never seen that before in all of the books I've read. Another thing

that I really loved were very strong characters and very strong voices. This

is probably because they sounded like the writers themselves, but the voices

were fantastic. You knew who was who. You knew how

they felt at all times. You knew what their motivations were for doing certain

things and making certain decisions that felt wrong to one person but felt right

to another. You just knew everything that they were feeling and I think that's a

lot to do with the epistolary nature of this novel and the fact that they're

re-enacting things for the other person instead of seeing the dialogue in action -

in real time. I think it really worked for this novel especially because in the

novel both girls want to be storytellers of some kind. Ava wants to be director

Gen wants to be a journalist. They're both - they both want to tell stories so

it was really cool to see them telling stories back and forth to each other

while learning how to tell stories in the professional capacity. Finally, the

thing that was by far my favorite thing about the whole book is the healthy

relationship between Ava and Gen. Sometimes it's hard to remember that

friendships are relationships that need to be maintained and kept healthy. This

story has real conflict between the two main characters even though they love

each other and even though they - they try to support each other in

whatever the other does. They keep each other really accountable when they

disagree with each other and they are just so real about their pain and their

love for each other. And you see with the way the big conflict near the end gets

resolved that their friendship has lasted and will last because they know

how to fight with each other and for each other. They know that their

friendship will last, and they know that they have to work to make their

friendship las,t and they are willing to put in that work and it's fantastic to

see that about friendship because we see that represented in relationships a lot.

It's hard to see that represented with friendship. So who would I recommend this

book for? I would recommend this book for people who are 15 or older definitely.

It's not for younger teens, it's not for young people just because of the content

and the decisions they make. Even though these two characters are pretty mature

for their age, they're still so clearly maturing and so clearly figuring their

*bleep* out. And yeah, there is language in it there is a lot of talk of sexual

things that happen, including the loss of one's virginity,

including sleeping with the TA. including a lot of things. And obviously. it's not

because of the queer themes and it's not because of the mental illness that I

would wouldn't recommend it for younger kids. It's because of kind of the choices

they make and the things that go on that I wouldn't recommend it for younger

teens. I would also recommend it if you really like epistolary novels. I'm not

the biggest fan of epistolary novels so it took me a little while to warm up to

the to the format, but I did end up really liking it and it really worked in

this book. One book that constantly kept coming back to mind was PS Longer Letter

Later, if you guys remember that book at all. It was between two friends who had

been separated for the first time and they were writing letters back and forth

to each other, and then was in the sequel Snail Mail No More, they were writing

emails back and forth to each other, so this had that kind of feel where it was

definitely a long-distance friendship and they were trying to keep in touch

while their lives were diverging so much. That, but 10 times more mature. That's

kind of who I would recommend it to. You kind of know how I feel about this book,

and I don't have the book on hand unfortunately, but obviously you know

what it looks like. But I do like to always include a favorite quote of mine

that really stood out in the book whenever I review a book. And this one,

this is Gen emailing Ava, and this is her talking about her hero Edward Snowden,

and she has also recently talked about how she got with a girl, and things

like that. And so, the quotation is "Sexuality is like a river, and sometimes

it bends right into America's greatest hero." It's so funny it's just so Gaby

Dunn, like, because it's about journalism, it's about sexuality and how it

can be fluid, and it's just such a great metaphor. And I love it. So yeah, that

is it for this video! I hope you guys enjoyed this book review and I really

hope to do more. Let me know if you want to see more book reviews because I am

reading a lot right now, and I have so many thoughts about so many books. But

yeah, that is it for this video. Let me know if you enjoyed it. Let me know if

you have read this book, and I would love to hear your thoughts and were my

criticisms of it too nitpicky and too niche, or were they valid? I'm not sure. um

Let me know in the comments down below. Yep! That is it I will see you guys next

time. Bye! extra special shout out to Jay Patel aka PelonX for supporting me on

patreon thank you so much for your support.

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On HIGH: How Well Do You Do Change? - Take One - Duration: 13:58.

Greetings and welcome!

Today I want to talk about change.

I want to start by asking you, "How do you deal with change?"

Being that all life is about change, it's always dealing with it whether we want to,

or not.

The question is: how difficult do you make it for yourself to adapt to, adjust to, deal

with, accept, or try and push away the whole concept of change?

Change is life.

Without change there is really no life.

Because change is constant vibration, constant movement, constant becoming, the state of

constant becoming or constant deterioration.

So, I thought about change today because I realized that all of the change that is hyped

up, stepped up, seeming to be ramped up nowadays, these days --- it's a good question worth

considering.

How well you deal with change?

You see, its going to be happening, it's always been happening but our ability to cope, the

mechanisms that we have in place have been somewhat set and adjusted and fixed in a way

of being and doing and responding, so that things don't really throw us out of kilter.

So that things are not disruptive greatly to our lives.

However there's so much change going on nowadays, so much change in the form of output of stress,

of things happening all around us in the external world that in many ways it's difficult to

keep up.

And its been that way for some time.

It's been ramped up I would say, over the last 10 years or so.

It's been ramped up, especially, and it's going to continue to be ramped up.

There's a lot of change going on in the cosmos.

There's a lot of things happening on the planet and outside of the planet.

And so, we are going to necessarily experience some of what is going on because we're all

connected.

You may not really understand or know that we are connected, but if you have taken time

to do any kind of quiet work, meditative work, you know, time with nature and things of that

sort, you would understand, and you would understand the meaning when I say we are all

connected.

So, what, as the expression goes "as above, so below" what happens there, happens here.

And it's almost like if you look into a mirror and you see the ...you see the opposite.

You see that you are attracted to your reflection because you can see it for yourself.

And that's the way it is, really, when we are looking at the cosmos, the universe, we

are looking at ourselves.

Anyway...back to change.

So, change is something that is happening now, in every moment, in every second and

we've just learned to adapt to it.

However, nowadays, as I said, it's getting a little bit more challenging.

People seem to be walking on a tightrope, they seem to be on the edge.

And the coping mechanisms that they have had in place aren't so sturdy right now.

They are not working as well, as in times past.

So, what to do about that?

Well, first you have to recognize that that is what is going on.

How can you adapt to something if you're not willing to acknowledge that it's even there?

You just know that you're running like a hamster on a wheel, running, running, running--trying

to survive, trying to keep up, trying to just cope with the onslaught of bad news that is

coming through the media, with the onslaught of activity that goes around in your neighborhood,

your community, in your country.

The information that is constantly streaming in.

If you think that you are not impacted by this information, or it doesn't have the ability

to impact you, you are mistaken because as I said, we are fully impacted, even by that

which we cannot see.

What do you do?

You have to figure out how to elevate.

Lift your consciousness up out of 3-D reality, up out of the Matrix, up out of this this

place where your life has become nothing but figuring out how to pay bills, how to buy

things, how to keep from getting sick, how to just live in this world.

You know, in my parents generation it was a lot easier even though you had a lot of

problems there with social and political issues (and they are still here today), but it was

much more intensity,...more of a calmness in those days, in the fifties and sixties.

There was much more calmness, although there was unsteadiness, there were uprisings, things

beginning to happen surrounding like the Vietnam war, and things like that.

Surrounding the black power movement...and things like that.

Surrounding the women's movement and things like that.

But there was never the sort of hyper activity that if you get still for a minute, you can

feel it.

You can feel the battering by these energies, by these forces -- these hyper-dimensional

forces.

So, you cannot see them but they're there, and they're doing battle.

And part of it is a deliberate battle on you, and another part of it is a battle against

the forces that they're in constant conflict with.

Also, invisible.

So, what you have to do, first of all, is recognize, you need to recognize the things

that are going on.

You need to recognize that it's not normal, as you have known normal in the past.

It's not.

It's not.

It's a signal of change is underfoot.

A great change is underfoot.

The matter is -- I always remember this ... I think it was Rudyard Kipling ... who asked

the question in this poem, if you can keep your mind when all about you are losing theirs.

That's gonna be the question.

That's gonna be the issue.

That's gonna be the thing.

What ways are you going to use to stay contained, to go through the process?

Even if you are in a particular state where you intend to travel out of this life by means

of some of the upcoming events, whether it's weather-related, natural disasters, whether

social and political chaos, economic downturn, whether through war or some other means that

you plan to transcend out of this body and into another dimension, is not the real question.

Because we're all going to do that at some point.

The question is how is it going to be for you when that time comes?

Are you going to be ready?

And that means preparation at the mental level, as well as the physical.

At the emotional level, as well as the mental.

At the spiritual level, as well as the emotional and psychological.

So, the question today again is how do you deal with change?

Start asking yourself that question because it's going to become increasingly important.

I haven't put my...

I haven't released my predictions for 2018, but I can say that everything that's been

going on now it's going to continue, and it's going to continue with more intensity.

So, if you're having trouble coping now, then you will want to stop and figure out...wait

a minute...maybe it's time to do some assessment.

It's not too late.

It's not too late to begin to ask certain questions, to take an assessment of your beliefs,

your ideologies, your philosophies, your thoughts about life.

It's not too late.

In fact, it's time.

No time like the present, as they say.

And its time to ask yourself if what you say you believe -- is that working for you?

As Dr. Phil would say...how's that working for you?

Because if it's not, if you feel as stressed as ever, then whatever you're using to cope

you may need to re-evaluate it's usefulness to you.

Start small, but start.

There's a lot to this topic and I don't wanna make this video much longer.

I want to keep it manageable.

But I'm just working with ideas because I've been on my channel talking about ways to elevate

your consciousness and your vibration, and the importance of it.

And I'm trying to go a little bit deeper with why these things are important.

Looking ahead at some of the things to come over the next 5-7 years, things are going

to, it's going to be like riding a wild bronco that hasn't been...you know..broken in.

And in order to manage to get accustomed to staying on the back of that horse, you're

going to have to make some adjustments.

Starting with your perspective.

Starting with your consciousness.

Starting with the tips and tools that you use to keep yourself even.

And if they're not working now, it's time to start a re-evaluation process, to start

asking new questions, to see what can be of help to you and for you.

So, how do you deal with change?

That's the question I intend to leave with you today.

And start thinking about how that change helps you deal with or adjust to, or adapt to what's

going on around you, to making your life what you probably thought and hoped it would be.

It's not all about the external world.

It's not all about what goes on here in the Matrix.

But it is aligning your thoughts, mind and heart, being, consciousness with the highest

vibration that you can reach for.

So, visit me at www.onhighseer.com if you need help figuring this out.

I'm happy to help you and work with you there on that.

Hopefully this video will give you some food for thought and get you thinking and questioning

because, as I said, it's not too late.

But time is not standing still for any of us.

So, think about it.

Thank you so much for visiting with me today.

Thank you for listening.

I appreciate it very much.

If you found it useful I hope you will like it and share the video.

If you haven't subscribed, I hope you will.

Press the little subscribe button there somewhere, and I hope that you'll visit me in the next

video.

In the meantime, take good care of yourself.

And I'll see you too in the next video.

Bye.

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Lauren Hashian, Dwayne Johnson's Girlfriend: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | SML TV - Duration: 12:07.

Lauren Hashian, Dwayne Johnson's Girlfriend: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

America loves Dwayne Johnson.

He has 99.7 million followers on Instagram, was named the second highest paid actor in 2017 earning 65 million, and was just honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Even though he is busy shattering records in his career, he still manages to maintain a Rock-solid personal life, pun intended.

The 45-year-old always finds a sweet way to thank his girlfriend for over a decade, Lauren Hashian, for her unwavering love and support.

The 33-year-old was born in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, and met the actor in 2006 while he was filming The Game Plan in Boston.

They started dating the following year.

Now, they are blessed with a two-year-old daughter and one on the way.

Here's what you should know about the woman who stole Johnson's heart.

She's a Singer & Songwriter.

According to her LinkedIn profile, the starlet graduated from Emerson University in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in public relations and communications.

In an interview with Vydia, she credits her college experience with her pursuit of music.

"There was a group of kids from Brooklyn I met my first week at Emerson and we hit it off.

A few of the guys were rappers, and one of them set up a mini studio in his dorm room," she explained.

In 2017, she released her first official music video for "Go Hard," shown above, which was selected by ESPN as one of their official songs for the 2017 WNBA season.

A collaboration with Walter French, she appears at the 1:24 mark.

Working as her co-producer on the project was her sister, Aja.

To listen to more of Lauren's work, visit her Soundcloud page here.

Back in 2005, she was a finalist on the competition show R U That Girl hosted by TLC's Chilli and T-Boz.

The show chronicled the group working with aspiring female performers, and Hashian was one of them.

In the clip below, you can see her at the 5:22 mark.

When asked from where she draws inspiration, the songstress recognizes Johnson for being a source of her creativity, telling Vydia:.

Dwayne has been such a major driving force in my inspiration.

He is my motivator and my sounding board every day.

Always giving me notes on the work, always motivating me to outdo my last effort.

Honestly, if I impress him with a track then I feel accomplished, it's true! He is an example of how anything you can imagine or dream up, you can do because he lives that way.

So when you see that every day, it fuels you & lifts you up too.

Also, being in love is a very inspiring thing – all of our experiences, from the good to the fun to the sexy to even the not so good, provide great inspiration to write from.

She Has a Daughter & One on the Way.

In 2015, the pair welcomed daughter Jasmine.

During her first pregnancy, the expectant mom joyfully took to Instagram, saying, "So grateful and in awe of this time.

To experience creating a little life is just incredible.

This beautiful cycle of life and womanhood beginning again.

And like Big Daddy says – Couldn't be prouder of all the kickass women she's going to have around her! And Men of course ;)".

In December, Johnson announced her second pregnancy on Instagram, saying, "Our Jasmine Lia would like to make a big announcement – IT'S A GIRL! @laurenhashianofficial and I are boundlessly grateful for this blessing as this spring we'll welcome our second baby.

Plus, Jazzy is excited to boss around and protect her lil' sis.".

When The Fat Jewish Instagram handle posted this meme about the former pro-wrestler being a deterrent to his daughter's future suitors, Hashian got a kick out of it, posting it on her page, with the caption, "I fear he's right.

Johnson Calls Her 'The Love of His Life'.

Unlike other A-Listers who tend to keep their personal life under wraps in interviews, Johnson frequently mentions his significant other and the strong bond they share.

In the video interview below with Entertainment Tonight, he said, "And I have the love of my life Lauren…I wake up every day so grateful and so thankful that you have someone like that.

Someone who you could walk through this world with."In a 2015 interview with Esquire, he also made a touching tribute to their relationship, saying:.

Yeah.

I've lived with my longtime girlfriend, Lauren Hashian, going on, like, eight, nine years now.

She's a singer-songwriter.

We spend a lot of time with my daughter in Florida, Simone, who's 13.

We do these stories and we talk so much about the business end, the success end, but then Lauren isn't mentioned and my daughter isn't mentioned.

I always like making sure we find the balance and my home life is in there and Lauren Hashian is in there and my daughter is in there.

You gotta get the better half in there.

With all the cool shit and success that I've been lucky enough to get? That doesn't happen unless the home life is solid.

When She Met Johnson, He Was Still Married to His College Sweetheart.

Johnson was married to Dany Garcia, who he met at the University of Miami, from 1997 to 2007, and the pair shares a 16-year-old daughter, Simone.

Johnson met Hashian in the fall of 2006, because, according to the Boston Herald, the two both ate at the same restaurant, Davio's.

However, he was still with Garcia at the time, which sparked cheating rumors.

Wrestling.com even did an article entitled, "Did The Rock Cheat On His Ex-Wife?, Now Dating A 24 Yr.

Old.".

The blended family seems to have put the past behind them and are very supportive of one another.

In fact, Garcia, a former associate vice president at Merrill Lynch, left her finance career behind to become Johnson's manager, a title she still holds to this day.

She is responsible for helping Johnson transition from being known as the wrestler The Rock to a film career, with Newsweek calling her, "The Woman Behind Hollywood's Biggest Earner.".

And when Simone signed a deal with a modeling agency, Hashian posted a photo of her stepdaughter on Instagram with this caption, "Big news!!! So excited for you @simonegjohnson and all the things you'll conquer… Including most likely the world one day! One of the most creative, funniest, wittiest young women I know, you're so much more than just a beautiful face… Congratulations!!".

Her Dad Was a Rockstar & Her Mom, a Former Bunny.

Her dad is John Thomas "Sib" Hashian, the drummer who played with Boston, a rock band that enjoyed success in the '70s and '80s.

They are known for classic rock anthems, such as "More Than a Feeling." Sib replaced the group's original drummer, Jim Masedea, in 1975.

He passed away in March of 2017 at the age 67, while performing on Legends of Rock cruise with a former bandmate.

After his passing, the band paid tribute to him on their website, stating, "Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of Sib Hashian who unexpectedly passed away.

Sib's high energy drumming on the early BOSTON albums and tours leaves a legacy that will be remembered by millions.".

According to Daily Entertainment News, Lauren's mother, Suzanne, was a former bunny at the Dallas Playboy Club.

Now, according to LinkedIn, she is the owner of The Healing Touch, a massage studio in Lynnfield.

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IS LIFE HAPPENING TO YOU | MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO | Ambition Meaning Success - Duration: 0:50.

- Is life happening to you? are you just going through the motions

or do you live with volition and awareness

the society we've built is a low trust society

the current world we live in is a low compassion world a

low vulnerability world

it's driven by fear of being found out, do you let that fear control you

or are you the driver of your bus, in this moment notice if you're living on purpose

notice if life is happening to you or for you

start to build trust in yourself so you know you can handle what comes your way

start today! start right now!

the Sun sets whether you do or don't...

Ambition Meaning Success

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Put You First - Duration: 22:48.

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Australian men - A great catch, ladies! - Duration: 7:56.

Australian Men - A great catch, ladies!

We've praised the Filipina lady regularly and vigorously here on FilipinaWives.

And why wouldn't we?

Most wonderfully kind, caring and sweet ladies in the world.

And most are also hard-working, practical and responsible.

An Aussie man who meets and falls in love with a decent Filipina lady is a lucky man

indeed.

But then again, she's a lucky woman too.

Most Australian men, despite being a bit rough around the

edges, are gentlemen.

Hard-working, faithful, and fairly domesticated.

Most would rather be at home with their wife and kids than anywhere else,

and most have little time for womanisers.

The paypacket comes home.

Life is usually pretty good for a Filipina wife with an Australian husband.

Take note that of course I'm generalizing here, and also take note that this is NOT

a matchmaking introduction.

I have no spare husbands here for lonely Filipina ladies, and my wife would be very

annoyed at me if I gave myself away!

And yes, Australia has some far-from-perfect men too, so please

always use your best judgment.

But the main purpose of the article is to explain a few points about what is unique

about Australian men, many of which you will see that they

differ from Filipino men.

And I do this in the interest of helping those existing Australian Filipina

couples to understand each other better and hopefully not to

HURT each other!

I hope this helps.

Australian men are rugged individualists This will differ between men, of course.

But mostly you'll find Australian men are ruggedly independent

and proud of it.

We're used to taking care of ourselves, and definitely not OK about receiving handouts

or charity.

Most of us would rather go without something that to be indebted to somebody.

It also means that while he will understand when there is genuine need due to poverty,

he will not understand begging relatives nor will he understand

those lazy tambay relatives who expect to live off

charity.

Despite being "tough" in many ways, he probably has a soft heart

Don't mistake being rugged and masculine with being heartless.

Most of us a like big teddybears and will respond well to gentleness and kindness, and

you will bring this out in him if you stay gentle and sweet.

Australian men value our ability to provide and to produce

We value ourselves according to what we produce.

We take pride in our ability to provide for our

families.

Having our kids giving us support and/or handouts, even when older?

Forget it!

We would rather go hungry.

We help our kids!

They don't help us!

What this means, ladies, is that even if your man gets older and retires, NEVER make him

feel useless.

He will already be sensitive about this.

If you get a job and you expect him to hang out your panties on

the washing line, you may very well crush his spirit.

Encourage him to do something, whether it's making

things, repairing things, or even mentoring and advising.

If you want him to be your knight in shining armor, believe in him

My wife is strong and capable, and she knows her own mind.

But she also knows me and my capabilities, and she believes in me.

She doesn't nag me.

She doesn't put me down.

She does not emasculate or belittle me.

Huwag tanggalin ang kanilang pagkalalake.

Treat him as your hero, and he will become your

hero.

You can make him or break him!

Australian men want to be included.

Not different, and not elite.

Best thing you can do for an Aussie man?

Treat him as an equal!

And NEVER treat him as a foreigner, and never let your relatives do it either.

Tell your friends and relatives to relax around him, and not call

him "Sir David" or whatever his name is.

Hospitality is fine, as long as he doesn't feel excluded.

He will make YOU his Number One, and expects the same in return

NEVER put your Filipino relatives and family ahead of him.

You will damage your marriage, possibly beyond repair, if you do this.

Don't let older Filipino relatives override decisions that you made (or

should make) as husband and wife.

And build the wealth of your new family first and foremost.

He acts with 100% honesty, and expects the same in return

Lies from a spouse are close to unforgivable.

So are secrets, especially involving your relatives.

Being "shy" is never an excuse.

This applies to spying and sneaking too.

He can't read minds Australian men are very honest, and will say

exactly what they think.

And they will expect you to do the same.

That means we are very bad at "reading between the lines" and trying to guess what you really

mean.

Get into the habit of discussing everything directly and clearly without "codes", otherwise

you will end up unhappy and he will end up confused.

He cannot stand tampos, and will never "make malambing"

Tampo is cruel, and it's childish.

Nothing good ever comes from it.

If you are using it as childish blackmail to get your own way?

Then suggest you grow up quickly.

If it's because you allow a problem to remain in

your head, and you can't take it anymore?

See the point above!

Discuss it.

And discuss it long before you lose control of your behavior.

Learn to work together.

And don't expect him to make malambing (Tagalog for being very very sweet when you're sorry

about something).

Learn to speak your mind and learn how to discuss and share feelings.

I hope that helps!

And I welcome comments.

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Myth 4: You Can Ovulate More Than Once in a Cycle - Duration: 0:54.

Hi everyone!

Today I'm bringing you myth #4.

The myth

You can ovulate more than once per cycle.

The truth

No you can't.

Ovulation is not some random event.

In order to ovulate, a series of hormonal events must occur

to trigger the ovary to release an egg.

And then due to hormonal changes that occur after ovulation,

you can't ovulate again until the whole cycle starts over

beginning with menstruation.

But ovulation can only happen once per cycle

and when it does it occurs in a 12 to 24 hour time period.

Rabbits on the other hand,

now that's a different story.

See you tomorrow!

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學好口語，日後出來工作才不會吃虧，真的嗎？'You will get a better job after learning how to speak', right? (香港手語/HKSL) - Duration: 2:15.

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911 Help Now Emergency Communicator Pendant - Duration: 15:24.

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Mark Vandersall, Michele Tafoya's Husband: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know || SML News - Duration: 13:26.

Mark Vandersall, Michele Tafoya's Husband: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Michele Tafoya is married to Mark Vandersall.

NBC Sports sideline reporter Michele Tafoya, who will be on the field for the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, is married to Mark Vandersall, a Minnesota native.

Tafoya, 53, and Vandersall, 46, have been married since 2000 and have two children together.

They live in Edina, Minnesota.

Here's what you need to know:.

Vandersall Played Baseball at the University of Minnesota & Went to Armstrong High School in Plymouth.

Mark Vandersall is a Minnesota native.

He graduated from Robbinsdale Armstrong High School in Plymouth, where he was an All-Conference football player in 1989 and a baseball star, before graduating in 1990, according to the school's website.

After high school, Vandersall, pictured above, left, played college baseball at the University of Minnesota.

He was named an honorable mention Freshman All-American pitcher by Mizuno.

His sister, Kristen, was a gymnast for the Gophers.

His father, Bruce Vandersall, who died in 2016, was the linebackers coach and defensive coordinator at the University of Minnesota from 1973 to 1982.

Vandersall and his family are still connected to the Gophers athletic program, with his Twitter feed filled with photos and pictures at football, baseball, basketball and other events with his children and wife.

Tafoya & Vandersall Met in 1993 When She Was Working at the Minnesota Radio Station KFAN.

Michele Tafoya, a California native who attended the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Southern California, met Mark Vandersall in 1993 while she was working as a host and reporter at the Minnesota radio station KFAN-AM, according to KARE-TV.

Tafoya was the Minnesota Vikings sideline reporter for the radio station and also covered University of Minnesota women's basketball games.

Tafoya told the Minnesota Star Tribune that it was 30 below when she arrived in 1993 and she vowed to stay for a year.

Instead, she fell in love with the state, and later her now-husband, and never left.

"…Spring came, and it was a revelation," she told the newspaper in October 2017.

"This brown-and-white world changed to green, and blue, and yellow.

I'm seeing tulips! I'm seeing baby ducklings walk across the street!".

Tafoya and her husband live in Edina.

In 2016, VICE Sports asked Tafoya in 2016 how she wound up becoming a Minnesota mom after growing up in California.

"Great question.

People still ask me that.

"You 're from Manhattan Beach and you live in Minneapolis? What happened? I usually say that I got really, really bored with all that perfect weather out there in California, so I decided to move somewhere more challenging, but in this business, as you know, you bounce around," she told VICE ."You find that next big market and that's kind of what I did.

Along my climb I wound up in Minneapolis covering the Vikings and that's when I got hired for my first network job, which was CBS.

I met my husband here in Minnesota and it's a great place to raise our family, so here we stay.

I really do like it here, but there are a couple weeks each winter where I want to stab my eye out.

But other than that, it's pretty good.".

They Have a Son, Tyler, & a Daughter, Olivia, Who Was Adopted From Colombia.

Mark Vandersall and Michele Tafoya have two children together, a son, Tyler, born in 2005, and a daughter, Olivia, who they adopted from Colombia in 2009 as a newborn.

But the couple had a difficult path to starting a family.

According to WCCO-TV, Tafoya and Vandersall went through two miscarriages in one year.

They then saw a fertility specialist, and she became pregnant with twins through in vitro fertilization, but miscarried again.

"You're pregnant with these babies and then they go away," she told WCCO in 2007.

Tafoya told Modern Mom:.

Balancing family with career is every working mom's struggle.

By the time I got married I was 35, and my window for childbearing was closing.

After losing four babies to miscarriage, my husband and I were losing hope.

Miraculously, I got pregnant at 40 and gave birth to my son just before I turned 41.

That struggle to have children changed my priorities.

And having my son made me want to travel less.

When he turned two, I quit my role as the lead sideline reporter on the NBA on ABC.

Shortly thereafter, we adopted a beautiful baby girl from Colombia, South America.

Our family is complete, and I don't want to miss anything.

I missed a good part of my second season on Monday Night Football (after giving birth in 2005).

That was extremely difficult.

But it gave me a better understanding of why athletes get so frustrated having to miss games with injuries.

But Disney/ESPN/ABC were wonderful allowing me to spend the first six months of my son's life with him! I wouldn't trade that for anything.

Similarly, they allowed me to take two months to live in Bogota, Colombia, while we adopted our daughter.

That was a phenomenal experience.

The biggest professional sacrifice I made was walking away from my NBA assignment.

It was a plumb job that paid well.

But my husband and I agreed that I was giving up too much of the intrinsic value I derive from being with my children.

In an interview with Edina Magazine, the Tafoya talked more about the adoption process.

"Meeting her was a powerful moment," she told the magazine.

"She was sleeping, looked up and smiled at us.

She hasn't stopped smiling since.".

The couple's kids have been lifelong fans of her on-air career, she told Modern Mom in 2012:.

You know, the other day my six-year-old son asked me, 'Mom, who do you work for again?' and I said 'NBC sports' and he goes, 'cuz one of the kindergarten teachers said she saw you on TV.' Now, he definitely knows that I'm on TV but I don't think he realizes that anyone else knows.

But overall, it doesn't really phase him.

I mean, it's always been this way for him.

Shortly after he was born, I did my first Super Bowl and we took him along.

My daughter is only three, so for her it's more of just seeing me on the TV and getting excited.

It's funny because when I'm home – and I could be right there in the living room with her – and we turn on any other kind of football game that I'm not covering, she'll point and go 'Mommy!' because she thinks, oh, football – Mommy should be there.

Tafoya told VICE that her children keep her busy.

"Well.

What keeps me most busy are my kids.

I have two young kids.

They are eleven and eight.

I hate being away from them and so, when I'm home, I'm trying to get everything done while they're at school so that I can be present when they are home.

For any parent out there reading this, you know that doesn't always work that well.

It's busy, but I wouldn't have it any other way," she told VICE Sports in 2016.

Vandersall Works as a Private Wealth Advisor.

Mark Vandersall graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1995 with a degree in finance, according to his Linkedin profile.

He has worked as a private wealth advisor with Ameriprise Financial Services in Edina since his graduation.

"The foundation of my approach to financial planning is based on a personal relationship with my clients.

Through this relationship we work together to develop a personalized strategy – a plan of attack to help them achieve their financial goals and dreams," he wrote on Linkedin.

For more infomation >> Mark Vandersall, Michele Tafoya's Husband: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know || SML News - Duration: 13:26.

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True colors covered by Sing and You student Charles - Duration: 5:07.

You with the sad eyes

Don't be discouraged, oh I realize

It's hard to take courage

In a world full of people

You can lose sight of it all

The darkness inside you

Can make you feel so small

Now I see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors are beautiful

Like a rainbow

Show me a smile then

Don't be unhappy

Can't remember when

I last saw you laughing

This world makes you crazy

And you've taken all you can bear

Just call me up

'Cause I will always be there

And I see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors are beautiful

Like a rainbow

Oh oh oh oh oh

I can't remember when

I last saw you laughing

This world makes you crazy

And you've taken all you can bear

Just call me up

'Cause I will always be there

I see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors are beautiful

Like a rainbow

I see your true colors

Shining through

I see your true colors

And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid

To let them show your true colors

true colors are beautiful

True colors are beautiful

Like a rainbow